Civil Year

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or year:

“They have been waiting for us in a foetor
Of vegetable sweat since civil war days,
Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure
Of the expropriated mycologist.”
—Derek Mahon (b. 1941)

“Never read any book that is not a year old.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)